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...two-room apartment in Japan, where I write this, has an address six lines long that winds through a confounding sequence of dashes, numerals, English words (Memphis Apartments) and lyrical Japanese terms that sound as if they escaped from the Emperor's New Year haiku ("the Southern Slope of Deer" is the meaning of one), all of which is doubly embarrassing since, as everyone knows, the Japanese don't have street addresses. And to call my office from this apartment involves a seven-digit access number, a 14-digit personal code and then another 14 digits. The days when...
...Russian commander VASILY TSIBLIYEV or NASA astronaut MICHAEL FOALE--who accidentally disconnected the fateful cable on board Mir in mid-July, sending the Russian space station into its second dance with death of the summer. "It was my fault," Lazutkin said softly, sipping coffee in his cramped two-room apartment on Moscow's northeast edge. "It was at night, and I was in the process of undoing something like 50, 60 or 70 cables. I don't even remember now how many...
...would be allotted on the basis of what you knew, not whom you knew. Reliance on tests grew, to compensate for the divergent standards in schoolrooms across the country. But tests cannot quantify qualities such as cooperativeness, creativity, or the perseverance a teenager needs to sit down in a two-room shack and do homework every night...
...Everybody knows everybody and everybody knows everybody's business," says Joyce Gilmore, postmaster at the two-room Harvard Post Office (ZIP code 83834), which serves the 235 residents of the town and the surrounding flatlands...
...Everybody knows everybody and everybody knows everybody's business," says Joyce Gilmore, postmaster at the two-room Harvard Post Office (ZIP code 83834), which serves the 235 residents of the town and the surrounding flatlands...